“The Hard Hand of War Comes to Laurinburg” historian Bernhard Thuersam of Wilmington.

A 5PM artillery salute to North Carolina veterans will close the day’s events.

This event is sponsored by the Scotland County Tourism Development Commission, Scotland County Historical Properties Commission, Griffin Estep Group Insurance, Cape Fear Historical Institute, Sons of Mars Camp, NC Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Scotland County Genealogical Society.

The U.S. presence in Syria is an illegal act of war. It violates
international law and it is unconstitutional. Syria did not invite the
U.S. to come in. Congress has not approved it.

(Logical except for those brain-dead.)

The United States government is now at war in Syria, with nearly
1,000 combat-ready U.S. troops providing artillery and air support in
the north. We have put our troops in an impossible and perilous
position, with enemies on all sides.

The war in Syria is not a fight for democracy. The
U.S. is fighting alongside and supporting the cause of 80,000 jihadis
from 90 different countries. Nearly a half-million Syrians have died in
the war fueled by this sinister worldwide participation.

The U.S. is equipping terrorists who keep changing
their name, but the game is the same: To unite and achieve a radical
Islamic fundamentalist takeover of the region.

Billions of U.S. tax dollars have helped spawn this
war, creating death and misery, massive migrations of refugees and
immigration crises.

Nearly 500 jurisdictions are now
sanctuary cities, according to a group that’s trackd the issue for more
than a decade, and who said there’s been a massive surge in the number
of places trying to thwart federal immigration agents since President
Trump’s election.

The Ohio Jobs & Justice Political Action Committee has dded more than three dozen new cities and counties to its list in 2017
alone, as jurisdictions rush to try to shield illegal immigrants from
what they expect to be a new push for deportations under Mr. Trump.

“More will be coming,” said Steve Salvi,
founder of OJJ. “A lot of communities now, there’s resolutions in the
works and citizens groups encouraging city councils to pass them.”

Perhaps
just as surprising, though, are the four cities OJJ has removed from
its list or is poised to remove, once it gets final confirmation of
cooperation with Homeland Security officials. Two of those are in
Alaska, while the other two are Dayton, Ohio, and Miami, Florida.

Government agencies use “regulatory dark matter” to insert themselves
into everyday life without congressional or public approval, a
conservative nonprofit watchdog group reported Tuesday.

Federal regulatory orders include presidential and agency memoranda,
guidance documents, bulletins and public notices that don’t require
prior congressional consent, and empower the government to interfere in business and personal lives, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute report.

“Congress needs to take back its authority
over federal agencies,” CEI Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. said.
“The problem with regulatory dark matter is that it allows the executive
branch of our government to rule sectors of our economy through mere
announcements, rather than actual lawmaking or even proper rule-making.”

According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the
ultimate American villain.

These esteemed historians think lofty
assessments from previous decades failed to account for his glaring
inconsistencies in regard to federal power, his advocacy for American
imperialism, or his well-known defense of slavery and racism. Historians
may have been critical of Calhoun’s advancement of the “positive good”
of slavery–Samuel Flagg Bemis famously labeled Calhoun the infamous
“Defender of Slavery”–but to the modern social justice warrior turned
historian they did not do enough to condemn Calhoun as the fork-tailed
godfather of all social evil in the United States.

After all, one of the
political heroes of the left, John F. Kennedy, had the gall to classify
Calhoun as one of the most important Senators in American history.
Maybe Kennedy was more honest than we thought. He wasn’t afraid to be
seen with a Confederate Battle Flag.

The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record
$36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal
records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated
Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in
other categories measuring transparency in government.

For a
second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times
federal employees told citizens, journalists and others that despite
searching they couldn’t find a single page of files that were requested.

Project Veritas strikes again! This time they caught Mitchell
H. Rubinstein, senior counsel to New York State United Teachers Union
boasting about how he protects teachers who force heinous sex acts on
underage students.

One teacher in particular allegedly held his underage male students
at knife and gunpoint, forcing them to perform oral sex on him.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.